I think around 20. I didn't really get a good count, the game was going by so fast....
The Persians....well, they had plenty of time to see the writing on the Great Wall:
1912 AD: FINAL VICTORY
And that's a wrap. Second diety win under my belt--now I'm gonna be full of myself for like a month.
POST-GAME
To those of you who encouraged me to go ahead and play that awful-looking start: thank you very much.
To those of you who just wanted to see me get steamrollered.....well, I guess I let you down again.....
Next time y'all get a cheesy start in a game, though....think it over before throwing it and rolling a new map.
The Crowded House format produced mixed results here. With so little room to move, a single extra city can make a huge difference. In that respect, I actually got lucky. Note from the world map of the starting positions, that I actually had a nice chunk of free space to work with. That, and the choke point on my east side were game-savers!
While I played heavier on military at the start of the game this time around, I still had a few of the same habits I've retained in Diety games, such as building temples. Going for that first Army, however (instead of a Wonder) made the conquest of my home territory that much easier. Armies were responsible for a large percentage of my kills this game (well, up until the Tanks came along....then the numbers changed real fast!)
Thank you all for coming!
(4000 BC save file is attached, by the way--PTW version 1.27f)
Tanks really rule the world.
